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Ms. Charen: I read your column in The Florida Times Union faithfully and I wholeheartedly agree with your stance on porn addiction. It is a national calamity and I hope that I can give you further insight. In the early 1950's when Hugh Heffner quit Esquire and founded Playboy is was a shoestring operation and he used an office assistant, Janet Pilgrim, for the first Playmate model. Playboy airbrushed the first models for years in the Peter Gowland tradition, it wasn't until Hustler and Penthouse came on the scene with explicit pictorials that Playboy really began to demean women visually also. The insidious effect of Playboy was not the continuing nudity of its models it was the "Playboy Philosophy" written by Hugh Heffner and published in every issue for many years. The nudity sold the magazine and the editorials sold his view that any sexual conduct between consenting adults was to be socially acceptable. His views contained a host of ultra liberal ideas which have gone a long way to undermine American moral principals. Only a few days ago auditions for Playboy pictorials were held here in Jacksonville and the Times Union carried photos of some gorgeous young women viviing for an opportunity to pose naked before the unforgiving camera lens. Where was the National Organization for Women when this sort of exploitation of women began to become the norm? Thank you for your efforts Ms. Charen I hope that you can have a positive effect on a great deal of women. Cordially in Christ, George Kern